LISA16 Conference Topic: Culture

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LISA16: Culture

Workshops

Monday, December 05, 2016 - 9:00 am–12:30 pm
Going beyond the "Shrink Wrap:" Inclusion, Diversity, and IT

J. Goosby Smith, Ph.D., The Citadel

Monday, December 05, 2016 - 1:30 pm–5:00 pm
Government and Military System Administration Workshop

Andy Seely, SAIC

Monday, December 05, 2016 - 1:30 pm–5:00 pm
Sourcing, Interviewing, and Hiring Systems Engineers

Connie-Lynne Villani, Grilled Cheese Invitational
1:30 pm–5:00 pm

Tuesday, December 06, 2016 - 9:00 am–12:30 pm
Managing System Managers

Cory Lueninghoener, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Keynote

Wednesday, December 07, 2016 - 9:15 am–10:30 pm
The Evolution of People, Process, and Technology in the Digital Age

John Roese, Dell EMC EVP and CTO of Cross Product Operations

Invited Talks

Wednesday, December 07, 2016 - 11:45 am–12:30 pm
Strategic Storytelling

Jessica Hilt, University of California, San Diego

Wednesday, December 07, 2016 - 2:00 pm–2:45 pm
How Should We Ops?

Courtney Eckhardt, Heroku

Wednesday, December 07, 2016 - 2:00 pm–2:45 pm
Traps and Cookies: A Mystery Package from Your Former Self

Tanya Reilly, Google

Wednesday, December 07, 2016 - 2:45 pm–3:30 pm
How to Succeed in Ops without Really Trying

Chastity Blackwell, Yelp

Wednesday, December 07, 2016 - 2:45 pm–3:30 pm
SRE at a StartUp: Lessons from LinkedIn

Craig Sebenik, Matterport

Wednesday, December 07, 2016 - 4:00 pm–4:45 pm
Don't Burn Out or Fade Away: Conquering Occupational Burnout

Avleen Vig, Etsy

Wednesday, December 07, 2016 - 4:45 pm–5:30 pm
The Road to Mordor: Information Security Issues and Your Open Source Project

Amye Scavarda, Red Hat

Wednesday, December 07, 2016 - 4:45 pm–5:30 pm
You Can't Build a Team in the Thunderdome: Better Hiring through Empathy

Ryan McKern, Puppet

Thursday, December 08, 2016 - 11:00 am–11:45 am
Data Has Always Been Big

Kyle Erf, Software Engineer, MongoDB, Inc.

Thursday, December 08, 2016 - 11:00 am–11:45 am
Passing the Console: Fostering the Next Generation of Ops Professionals

Alice Goldfuss, New Relic

Thursday, December 08, 2016 - 11:45 am–12:30 pm
What I Learned from Science-ing Four Years of DevOps

Nicole Forsgren, DORA

Thursday, December 08, 2016 - 2:00 pm–2:45 pm
Stealing the Best Ideas from DevOps: A Guide for Sysadmins without Developers

Thomas Limoncelli, StackOverflow.com, and Christina Hogan, Independent Consultant

Thursday, December 08, 2016 - 2:45 pm–3:30 pm
Code Review for Operations

Spencer Krum, IBM and OpenStack

Thursday, December 08, 2016 - 4:00 pm–4:45 pm
Implementing DevOps in a Regulated Traditionally Waterfall Environment

Jason Victor and Peter Lega, Merck and Co., Inc.

Thursday, December 08, 2016 - 4:45 pm–5:30 pm
From BOFH to Just Another Person in the Standup, Surviving the Move to DevOps

Jamie Riedesel, HelloSign

Friday, December 09, 2016 - 11:00 am–11:45 am
Everything Is Terrible, and We're to Blame

Jim Perrin, The CentOS Project

Friday, December 09, 2016 - 2:45 pm–3:30 pm
Failure: Why It Happens & How to Benefit from It

VM (Vicky) Brasseur, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Friday, December 09, 2016 - 2:45 pm–3:30 pm
Interplanetary DevOps at NASA JPL

Dan Isla, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Mini-Tutorials

Thursday, December 08, 2016 - 11:00 am–12:30 pm
Interfacing with Humans: How to Manage in Prod Ops

Connie-Lynne Villani, Grilled Cheese Invitational

Thursday, December 08, 2016 - 4:00 pm–5:30 pm
Managing Dispersed Teams

Scott Cromar, Senior Manager, Convergys

Training

Sunday, December 04, 2016 - 9:00 am–12:30 pm
S4
Professional Conduct and Ethics for System Administrators
Sunday, December 04, 2016 - 1:30 pm–5:00 pm
S5
How to Not Get Paged: Managing On-Call to Reduce Outages
Sunday, December 04, 2016 - 1:30 pm–5:00 pm
S7
Documentation Techniques for System Administrators
Monday, December 05, 2016 - 9:00 am–12:30 pm
M1
"I Never Want to Live through This Again!": Running Excellent Retrospectives
Monday, December 05, 2016 - 9:00 am–12:30 pm
M6
Advanced Communication: Practical Tactics and Strategy
Monday, December 05, 2016 - 1:30 pm–5:00 pm
M7
Personal Time Management: The Basics for Sysadmins That Are Overloaded
Tuesday, December 06, 2016 - 9:00 am–12:30 pm
T3
Speed up Your Change Control
Tuesday, December 06, 2016 - 1:30 pm–5:00 pm
T6
Building a Process to Manage the Problems That Cause Incidents